Page 42 of 42

‘Serial’ Podcast Catches Fire – WSJ.com

In the normally low-profile world of podcasting, “Serial” is a certified sensation—a testament to the power of great storytelling. It’s quickly become the most popular podcast in the…

My favourite Zsh features

Zsh has seen wide adoption by developers looking to improve their interactive shell experience. I’m rather late to this party, but I’d like you to join too. I…

PEXELS – Royalty Free Photos

Pexels.com – All photos on Pexels are under the Creative Commons Zero (CC0) license.

Pictos.cc – Royalty Free Icons for UI Designers

Pictos.cc

Pentagon Studies Reveal Major Nuclear Problems – NYTimes.com

The crews that maintain the nation’s 450 intercontinental ballistic missiles had only a single wrench that could attach the nuclear warheads. “They started FedExing the one tool” to…

The WordPress Plugin Boilerplate

A STANDARDIZED, ORGANIZED, OBJECT-ORIENTED FOUNDATION FOR BUILDING HIGH-QUALITY WORDPRESS PLUGINS.

Blocs – Website Building App

Focused on simplicity, Blocs for Mac brings a fresh new approach to building modern, quality, static websites without the need to understand or write code. ~ www.blocsapp.com

Zion Icon Set

Zion, named after my favorite national park, is an icon set designed to mesh with OS X Yosemite’s refined visual language. In Yosemite, toolbars have been simplified, favoring…

The Football – Miracle at South Bend

As I mentioned in my last post, my brother was running footballs on the sideline during "The Miracle at South Bend". Late in the fourth quarter, after a…

Meteor.js

Meteor is a complete open source platform for building web and mobile apps in pure JavaScript.

How I became a web developer

I get asked a lot what it is that I do. My response is that I design and build websites, but that merely skims the surface. For those…

Top News Stories of 2011

In January of this year I came up with the idea to keep a running list of the “Big News Stories of 2011”. It’s around this time of…

Links of Interest – First Person Perspectives on Flying

Today’s Links of Interest feature videos that give you some amazing first person perspectives on flying. While each is spectacular in its own right, together this set takes…

Book Review: Bruce Catton’s A Stillness at Appomattox

The third book in Bruce Catton’s non-fiction Civil War trilogy, A Stillness at Appomattox, came to my attention via a lofty recommendation. It was described as an accurate,…

Celebrating 10 Years in Business

Tomorrow will be the 10th anniversary of michaelwender.com. I started this business in my old bedroom at my parents house, and through the years it has grown into…

Sharing Your Expertise

In their 1993 paper, made famous in Malcolm Gladwell’s Outliers, K. Anders Ericsson et al argue that to become an expert at something (think violinist, concert pianist, etc)…

Petition to Bring Back Mayfield’s Caramel Coyote Ice Cream

Something strange is afoot at the Mayfield Dairy. During the past year, they have discontinued their very best flavor, Caramel Coyote. This saga began last summer when my…